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Chrome OS: FileWave Inventory Extension Behavior (FAQ)

ChromeOS

What The FileWave Chromebook Inventory extension provides abilities to manage your devices beyon...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

Location Tracking

Evaluation Guide 5. Inventory Reporting

Dude, where's my device? Ever needed to locate a device but don't even know where to start? We...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

Software Group Structure

Evaluation Guide 1. Installation and Setup

You get a group and you get a group, everybody gets a group! Again, really? Yep. We recommend ...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

Android device management pre-EMM - EOL

End of Life Statements

What This is a notice that as of FileWave v14.9.0 that Android device management pre-EMM (aka AP...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

Using Parameters in Apple iOS/macOS Profiles

Profiles and Configurations (Apple)

Creating profiles with parameters in them is the ability to insert string/bool/int/datetime param...

Updated 1 year ago by Sean Holden

Configuring LDAP authentication

FileWave Server

You can use pre-designated, fixed account names and passwords to enroll devices in MDM, or you ca...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

Using Grafana for Data Aggregation

Dashboard (Grafana) 2.0 Custom Dashboards for Beginners

What Grafana has been included within FileWave for quite some time, but only with a recent updat...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

Importing a Grafana Dashboard

Dashboard (Grafana) 1.0 Dashboard Basics

What There's no need to build a grafana dashboard from scratch if you can "borrow" one from a fr...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

2.4 Creating a New Panel (existing data)

Dashboard (Grafana) 2.0 Custom Dashboards for Beginners

What It is possible in the FileWave dashboard to add panels directly from an inventory query (re...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

2.3 Widget/Panel Elements

Dashboard (Grafana) 2.0 Custom Dashboards for Beginners

What All panels (or widgets) on the FileWave dashboard are comprised of the same basic elements....

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

2.2.1 Copied Panel is Blank

Dashboard (Grafana) 2.0 Custom Dashboards for Beginners

What In certain circumstances, when you copy/paste a panel into another dashboard, you may find ...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

2.2 Copying Widgets (Panels)

Dashboard (Grafana) 2.0 Custom Dashboards for Beginners

What If we have the power to create our own dashboards, then surely we must be able to add conte...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

2.1 Creating Your Own Dashboard

Dashboard (Grafana) 2.0 Custom Dashboards for Beginners

What The beauty of the FileWave dashboard isn't in what we give you...although we definitely giv...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

How to Restart FileWave Components

FileWave General Info Troubleshooting

There may be times where you will need to restart all components within the FileWave server, or j...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. for macOS Software Updates (macOS Script)

Software Updates (Apple)

What is S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N.? S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. (Software Update Policy Enforcement with Recursive Me...

Updated 1 year ago by Zachary Butterfield

Apple Software Lookup Service (GDMF) option for OS updates

Software Updates (Apple)

What Before FileWave 14.7+ the MDM protocol only displayed updates reported by devices. Apple's ...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

Apple's Rapid Security Response Software Updates

Software Updates (Apple)

What Apple is known for its high standards of security and privacy for its users. However, no sy...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

Google Admin Sync Interval for ChromeOS (15.3+)

ChromeOS

What As an administrator managing ChromeOS devices you may want to change the frequency that Fil...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

FileWave Anywhere persistent user preferences (14.8+)

FileWave Central / Anywhere Settings

What As a user of FileWave Anywhere, I frequently have to resize columns when I’m using it. Whe...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky

FileWave Central - Additional Settings Menu Items

FileWave Central / Anywhere Settings

In the FileWave Admin application, there are several other settings and menu items that come into...

Updated 1 year ago by Josh Levitsky